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    Those Peterson Kids
    Those Peterson Kids
    Those Peterson Kids
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    Those Peterson Kids

    By Jay Henry Peterson

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    A family is torn apart.


    It wasn't an accident. It wasn't a disease. It wasn't a natural disaster that took eight young children from their parents in the spring of 1952. It was an act of the county government that tore the family apart.


    In early April 1952, a North Dakota district court judge signed an order removing eight children from the custody of their parents. The children became wards of the State. Seven were immediately taken to the North Dakota Children's Home Society in Fargo, a state agency orphanage that was often simply called the "Home". The eighth child, a 14-year-old girl, was taken directly to a foster home.


    Within a year, some of the children were being sent to foster homes and several were quickly adopted. Others spent more than six years as wards of the State. None were told where their brothers and sisters were sent.


    This is the story of what happened to those children. After years of suffering under a system intended to ensure their well-being, these children, with the help of some older siblings, managed to find each other and restore the family.


    It's been nearly 70 years since those Peterson kids were taken to the Home. Four are now deceased, including the oldest and the youngest. This is the story of how they endured their childhood trauma and through determination and family love put their family back together.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJay Henry Peterson
    Release dateOct 18, 2021
    ISBN9798201480738
    Those Peterson Kids
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    Jay Henry Peterson

    Jay Henry Peterson grew up as a farm kid on the northern Great Plains. He milked cows, handled beef cattle, hogs and chickens and spent many hours on tractors and other equipment planting and harvesting small grains, corn and soybeans. He began writing as a teenager, creating whimsical poems and stories to amuse his high school classmates. Most of that unpublished writing has been lost. After being passed around by his classmates, much of it was wadded up and tossed in the trash basket in some classroom. He often wrote sports and feature articles for his high school and college newspapers. His college years were interrupted when he was called to serve in the United States Army, a time that included a year in combat operations in the swamps and jungles of South Vietnam. He returned to college after the service and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism.   During a professional career of more than four decades as a printing and publications executive his writing was largely confined to business projects. Jay Henry Peterson is retired. He recently returned to writing for pleasure, this time concentrating on short stories and novels. He and his wife live in Arizona.

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